My Wealthy Affiliate Journey

Today I reached a milestone in my WA journey and achieved ranking in the top 200. It has been a memorable experience and a huge learning curve for me and today I want to share my success with you.Success means different things to different people and for me my greatest success has been the level of knowledge I have achieved thanks to the awesome training within Wealthy Affiliate. My training came from Kyle and Carson, Jays weekly interactive video training sessions and from the members of WA

Ranked Under 200. What Does it Mean?

I have never been too sure about what my rank means but ,none the less, since I first joined Wealthy Affiliate in 2015 I have used it as my barometer. When my rank went down I worked harder but the trouble was when it went up I have to make a little confession, yep I slacked off.The mysterious ranking number had become my driving force and today it dropped under 200. Was this time for a celebration and a little rest? Yes I can feel Mr Slack-off messing with my mind once again. What is it a

Feeling the Love

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been pretty busy setting up a new website. Some days it felt like I was trying to tame a troublesome teenager. Anything that could go wrong did go wrong and I was beginning to think Murphy's law had me in a strangle hold.The good news is, it is finally starting to come together and even though it is very new and I don't have much on it I am very proud of it.I published it on google and added it to the social site, got some comments from the WA members and

Awesome Help at WA

I have always been impressed with the help available at WA. When you have a problem the community will rally around and give you the help you need. The 24/7 chat is great because regardless of where you are in the world there is always someone there who can help you out.The ask the community feature is also pretty fast and I have always been impressed by the willingness of everyone to help a newbie when they need it.A few days ago I had a serious problem that neither the community nor 24/7 ch

The Fork In The Road

There comes a time in everyone's journey when they must choose which direction they want to go in. That time has come for me and I am faced with that choice. Should I keep doing the same thing I started doing when I first signed up at Wealthy Affiliate? Or has the time come to change direction?Now I am armed with the knowledge that WA has given me and I have a better understanding of how I should set up and run my online business. Even though what I have already done has given me some su

My EOFY Assessment

I guess when I say I am doing an end of financial year assessment you can be forgiven for thinking I will talk about the massive amounts of money I earned this year but that is not what I am assessing. This is an assessment of me personally and my efforts this year. At two months into my third year at WA, I should be able to say I have my eye on the ball and have never strayed from the straight and narrow but if I said that I would be telling, at best some pretty big fibs, at worst flaming big

A New Year, A New Start

2016 seemed to fly by for me and I guess it is because I have been so busy spending my time learning here at Wealthy Affiliate and writing not to mention all the other things that go toward filling my days to over flowing.At the end of July my oldest grandson came to live with me and this has added another responsibility to the list that was already becoming hard to handle..Trying to share myself around between everything and everyone is difficult and I am afraid my websites have suffered the

Is It Really Christmas Already

It only seems like a few weeks ago I was swearing at my credit card and here it is starting all over again. Huh? Who said I never learn?At this time of year I think about all those single parent kids who won't get what every kid wants this Christmas. Of course some of those kids are lucky enough to have adults for parents who put their differences aside to make sure their kids don't miss out on the things other kids take for granted.This Christmas I would hope we all think of those less fort

My 100 Badge

Wow, this is great. I just got my 100 badge for comments and I am very proud of this as it means I am getting comments to my site.I must admit, I do work at getting comments as they are very important and a real asset to my website. It is part of my routine (when I am able to stick to it) to go to the comments section and leave comments on other people's posts. This works both ways of course. When I leave comments and get enough points I can then ask for comments for my latest post.The impo

Is Guest Posting The New Thing?

I have asked people to guest post on my website for a couple of reasons. There have been a lot of articles around lately about he benefits of guest posting and why it can help your site. It gives some backlinks and also is good way for people to get more traffic and to increase their brand presence. To me it all sounds like a win win situation for everyone. I have just asked for guest posts on my site and I am hoping that I will get a few posts from people. Guest posting is a great way to